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  1. Jun 2025
    1. If your physical or emotional pain makes it difficult for you to read and study, you might try listening to audio recordings of the Bible or of Bible-based publications. You may also find it helpful to listen to one of our songs or to watch a video on jw.org.
  2. May 2025
    1. Put your problem in perspective. Learn to distinguish between major problems and minor events. The Bible says: “A fool immediately shows his annoyance, but the shrewd man overlooks an insult.” (Proverbs 12:16) Not all problems need to consume you. “In school, kids complained about trivial things in an overly dramatic way. Then they got feedback from their friends on social media—and that would kindle their fire even more, limiting their ability to put their problems in perspective.”—Joanne.

      Man, I really needed this counsel. I'll have to remember this.

  3. Apr 2025
    1. “You have thrown all my sins behind your back” (Isa. 38:17) “You will throw all their sins into the depths of the sea” (Mic. 7:19)

      Just studying the Watchtower for meeting & I love this image that illustrates the magnitude of Jehovah’s forgiveness as expressed in these 2 scriptures.

  4. Mar 2025
  5. Feb 2025
    1. Standard rice does not cook up well in the slow cooker. The slow cooker doesn’t get hot enough, fast enough to cook it properly, and you end up with gummy and chalky rice. If you choose to add uncooked rice to the slow cooker, try par-cooked rice such as Minute Brand Rice, for it has been parboiled and then dried again and works well in slow cooker recipes.

      Eww! Again, good to know.

    1. Create a new Note from a web page To make a note of something you found on a web page: Select the text you want to turn into a note; In the menu that appears, choose Copy to Note. The note will be added to the folder you viewed last.

      I wish this appended the URL of the excerpt to the note.

    1. the verb flounder, which dates to the late 16th century, is likely an alteration of an older verb, founder. The two verbs have been confused ever since. Today, founder is most often used as a synonym of fail, or, in contexts involving a waterborne vessel, as a word meaning “to fill with water and sink.” Formerly, it was also frequently applied when a horse stumbled badly and was unable to keep walking. It’s likely this sense of founder led to the original and now-obsolete meaning of flounder: “to stumble.” In modern use, flounder typically means “to struggle” or “to act clumsily”; the word lacks the finality of founder, which usually suggests complete collapse or failure, as that of a sinking ship.
    1. Hypothesis takes a completely different approach. Supporting open-access materials while also eliminating the cost of purchasing catalogs, Hypothesis allows educators to have the freedom to use resources from any source.
    1. Peter knew that he had sinned gravely, but he did not give up on himself. Why? Because he was convinced that his Master, Jesus, had not given up on him. What is the lesson? Jehovah wants us to be convinced of his love and forgiveness.​

      I need to remember this when I start berating myself for my mistakes.

    1. I tend to be a bit panicky and a little impatient. But I am learning not to rush to find a solution when difficulties arise. It is much better to wait on Jehovah

      I'm the same way. I need to learn to rely on Jehovah more & leave things in his hands.

  6. Feb 2023
    1. Chasing down and embracing that feeling with a welcoming and accepting posture desensitizes you to the feeling over time. Conversely, if you are unwilling to feel the feeling, but instead rely on compulsions and avoidances, desensitization cannot happen.

      But what if that feeling is guilt? I don’t want to become desensitized to guilt, so that I no longer have a conscience.

  7. Aug 2022
    1. Sometimes a placeholder can only take a limited number of values in which case we may want to show a menu with these choices. This can be done with the ${«int»|«choice 1»,…,«choice n»|} syntax.
    2. Like variables, tab stops can also have default values (and are generally referred to as placeholders when they do). The syntax is the same: ${«tab stop»:«default value»}. And the default value can contain both text, shell code and other placeholders.
    3. Often though we want to fill in text in several places in the snippet. Multiple tab stops can be provided by inserting $1-$n. The caret will start at $1, then when pressing tab it will move to $2 and $3 on next tab etc. until there are no more tab stops. If you do not explicitly set $0, the caret will be at the end of the snippet.
    4. You can use any of TextMate’s defined variables by prefixing the name of the variable with $. All the normal dynamic variables are supported, the most useful probably being TM_SELECTED_TEXT
    5. If you use snippets to insert plain text there is only one thing you should be aware of: $ and ` are reserved characters. So if you want to insert one of these, prefix it with an escape (i.e. \$).